Oh, and go read Hourglass.
NOTE: The comments inside the brackets are Sam's, the one's that aren't are mine.
Hugs,
Cal.
Part I and II are here and here.
Retrospect: A Mix for Hourglass, Part Deux
Side A
[FULL ZIP]
1. The Rock – Hans Zimmer [box link]
[Instrumental]
Cause every music mix needs a feisty instrumental.
2. In This Hole – Cat Power [box link]
Where should I hang my head?
Where would you like for me
To hang my head?
Lieutenant and Jeremy claimed this as their song apparently.
3. Holy Roller Novocaine – Kings of Leon [box link]
Don't you worry baby
You won't feel a thing
Close your eyes
Holy Roller Novocaine.
Perhaps a Mr. Smart song, it makes me think of [BIPOLARITY] one of the shorts Sam posted.
Sam wrote:Smart’s hands began to shake, so violently that he couldn't bring himself to clean up the last of it. And so he simply sat there, kneeling, looking down at the floorboards whilst Adelais bled.
I love this song and this band.
4. Intervention – the Arcade Fire [box link]
The king's taken back the thrown
The useless seed is sewn
Then they say they're cutting off the phone
We'll tell them we're not home
No place to hide
You're fighting as a solider on their side
You're still a soldier in your minds
But nothing's on the line.
[Über Luke and Jeremy.]
5. Monster – Lovedrug [box link]
Careful, the monster is round that corner
And he’s waiting for blood tonight
He knows that you might fight back
Torture.
6. The Girl Who Falls Down Stairs – Tom McRae [box link]
And I see myself
Turn into something else
Turn into someone else
For a while
And I know I'm right
Running into this night
Running another dream to the ground.
7. The Laws Have Changed – The New Pornographers [box link]
It was crime at the time
but the laws, we changed 'em
though the hero for hire's…
For the boys and girls of Hourglass. [Or for the Hourglass themselves- rather a confusing lot.]
8. Broken Boy Soldier – the Raconteurs [box link]
Well I'm child and man and child again.
The toy, broken boy soldier.
[I’m morbid and quite possibly a sadist, character-wise, and so I enjoy the idea of broken people. A theme, really.]
9. Set the Fire to the Third Bar – Snow Patrol ft. Martha Wainwright [box link]
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from A to where you'd 'B'
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My fingers in creases of distant dark places
10. I Ain't Scared of Lightning – Tom McRae [box link]
I ain’t scared of lightning, come on and do your worst.
If they gave degrees for cheating destiny then man I got a first.
Luke.
11. Battleships – Travis [box link]
We’re battleships, driftin’ in an alley river
Takin’ hits, sinking it’s now or never.
12. Devil's Waitin – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club [box link]
Out on the corner with cast iron blood
10,000 more with hearts on their own
the say I might die…
13. One Beat – Sleater-Kinney [box link]
Could I turn this place all upside down
and shake you and your fossils out…
14. Carrion – British Sea Power [box link]
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds!
The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow.
Always, always, always the sea,
Brilliantine mortality...
15. Love Is A Deserter – the Kills [box link]
Get the guns out. Your love is a deserter.
[Way too literal. But then again, isn’t that the point?]
16. Girl Sailor – the Shins [box link]
You've won one too many fights,
wearing many hats every time,
but you won’t win here tonight.
[So Lieutenant.]
17. Seeing Things – Nocturne [box link]
Can you tell me the way to go
I feel the time slipping away
Can you tell me the way to go
Which way to the end?
18. One Crowded Hour – Augie March [box link]
If love is a bolt from the blue,
Then what is that bolt but a glorified screw?
[Possibly symbolic for Lieutenant and Adelais’ “romance”.]
19. Windy – Page France [box link]
I believe in kings and queens
and everything stuck in between.
But please if you must take a peek
don’t spoil for me my mystery.
I always thought of this as a Luke and Jeremy song. Possibly for this refrain right here: “Remind me who I am, and what you are / 'Cause when our eyes close we're the same”.
20. Travelling with Charley – the Cardigans [box link]
Travelling with Charley
My detective darling.
For some odd reason this song makes me think of Matthias.
Enjoy!
Cal.
